NCAA Conference Updates

...And the Winner Is?

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:39 | Written by Mike Crook |

ACC Football The ACC Media Days are in full swing now in Greensboro, NC. Part of the fun each year is seeing just how wrong the media is at voting where your favorite team will finish once the dust of the regular season has fallen.

The darling of late has been Virginia Tech, which is an obvious choice to win the ACC each year.

However their track record on this pick is horrendous, only correctly picking VaTech to win it all (2007).

ACC Announces 2010 Early Season TV and Game Time Schedule

Thursday, 03 June 2010 11:31 | Written by Mike Crook |

From The ACC.com:

Greensboro, N.C. - Nineteen televised games in the first three weeks of the season, including 10 national exposures, headline the early-season football television schedule announced Thursday by Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford.

The ACC begins 2010 in a big way with nationally-televised neutral site contests on Saturday and Monday of Labor Day weekend, led by an appearance in the Third Annual Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic which will feature North Carolina and LSU in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta on Saturday, Sept. 4, a game which will be nationally-televised by ABC (8 p.m.). The ACC concludes the weekend with a rare Labor Day doubleheader with Maryland hosting Navy on Labor Day Monday at 4 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., and Virginia Tech facing Boise State in an 8 p.m. game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Both games will be nationally televised by ESPN.

ACC Football Championship Kickoff Again In Prime Time

Monday, 03 May 2010 06:48 | Written by Mike Crook |

From The ACC.com:

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Atlantic Coast Conference’s Dr Pepper Football Championship Game will once again be played in prime time on national television this year, with a 7:45 p.m. (ET) kickoff on ESPN, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced Wednesday.

The 2010 Championship Game will be played on December 4 in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. This year’s game will mark the first time the ACC Football Championship has been held in Charlotte, after spending its first three years (2005-07) in Jacksonville, Fla., and the past two years (2008-09) in Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.

ACC Gets New TV Deal With ESPN

Monday, 17 May 2010 08:51 | Written by Mike Crook |

From Tomahawk Nation.com:

The long wait appears to finally be over. According to the Triangle Business Journal, ESPN out-bid Fox in close fashion. Fox stepped up its game because it wanted to increase its internet-broadcasting efforts. This move allowed the ACC to milk more money out of ESPN.

$155 million between 13 teams (the league office gets an equal share for projects and operations) is about $12 million per year. That's almost 3X what the teams were making under the old deal. SEC schools get roughly $17 million each from their TV deals. That's $ 5 Million more per SEC school per year, but the ACC closed the gap in somewhat major fashion.